Which is more violent, the Bible or the Quran?

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Sacrifice date 2006

Which is more violent, the Bible or the Quran? Is there a way to objectively
answer such a question?

Well, it wouldn't be easy. But it is possible to compare the amount of cruelty
and violence in the two books.

Here is a summary of the highlighted verses in the SAB and
SAQ.

Bible: 857

Quran: 488

So the Bible has more cruel or violent passages as the Quran. But the
Bible is a much bigger book. How do they compare when size is taken into
account?

Bible
Violence and Cruelty: 857
Total verses: 31173
Percent: 2.75

Quran
Violence and Cruelty: 488
Total verses: 6236
Percent: 7.83

When expressed as a percentage of cruel or violent verses (at least as
marked in the SAB/Q), the Quran has nearly three times that of the Bible.
(7.83 vs. 2.75%)* Of course this analysis does not consider the extent
of the cruelty in the marked passages. And that is an important consideration.
Is Numbers 31:14-18, for example, more cruel than Quran 5:34? That is
something that each person must decide.

A good argument could be made that either book is the most violent and
cruel book ever written. The award would go to one or the other, for neither
has any close competitors. It is frightening to think that more than half
of the world's population believes in one or the other.